I realized how messy my Windows system tray was. Windows’ default hide icons feature kept some mess out of my sight, but still, everything felt disorganized, and fixing it manually felt like a big ...

When icons start disappearing from Windows Vista's system tray—like the networking, volume control, or time display—and you can't restore them from the standard options menus, the itch to re-install ...

It’s been a while since I’ve gathered up Windows tips for you. I know, I’ve been remiss. So this week I’ve got a great tip on fine-tuning Windows Vista and 7’s AutoPlay settings, and I help a reader ...

The Windows System Tray is something of a necessary evil. It shows status icons for various system elements (like volume and network connections) and programs running in the background (like MozyHome ...

Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 Insider build less than a week after 22610, for Insiders on the Dev and Beta channels. Update, May 10: There's a newer build 22616.100 available, but it's just ...

This is quite trivial and non-system-imperiling, but I've wondered about it for so long I finally had to ask. Both indicate network connectivity. The first one means you're connected wirelessly; the ...

For those of you who tolerate MS OSs.<P>Have your system tray icons been breeding? I'm currently looking at 18. Yup one eight. Where did the blighters come from? What's the record (please list)?<P>FYI ...

The system tray (Windows) is that area to the bottom right of your taskbar, right next to the clock. Unfortunately, this area of computing real estate can get clogged up pretty fast with unused icons ...

A tray icon is a long-lived application that sits on your computer desktop's system tray. Figure 1 shows some examples of tray icons in the authors system tray. Figure 1 Examples of tray icons in a ...

When your network, volume, clock, or other icons are missing from the system tray, returning them takes just a few seconds. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...